Bill Ackman Drops Stunning Take on AI Spending

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Bill Ackman (Trades, Portfolio)'s Pershing Square says Wall Street may be underestimating the long-term payoff from the massive AI spending programs at Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Meta (NASDAQ:META), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG). Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Sign with MSFT. Is MSFT fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. The investment firm argues that analyst models are fully incorporating today's elevated capital expenditures while assigning too little value to the future revenue and earnings those investments could produce. That distinction matters because hyperscaler spending has exploded.